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We investigate the angular power spectrum ($C_\ell)$ and angular correlation function ($w(\theta)$) of galaxy number density field in the presence of the local-type primordial non-Gaussianity (PNG), explicitly accounting for the integral…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-23 Ryo Terasawa , Yue Nan , Masahiro Takada

It has been recently shown that cosmological models with scale-dependent primordial non-Gaussianities (sPNG) could provide a possible path to solve current cosmic tensions. Moreover, it has been pointed out that some of these models might…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-08 Clément Stahl , Benoit Famaey , Rodrigo Ibata , Katarina Kraljic , Fabien Castillo

It has recently been proposed that the large-scale bias of dark matter halos depends sensitively on primordial non-Gaussianity of the local form. In this paper we point out that the strong scale dependence of the non-Gaussian halo bias…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 Carlos Cunha , Dragan Huterer , Olivier Dore

The forthcoming Stage-IV experiments aim to map the large scale structure of the Universe at high precision. The scales explored require a relativistic description, in addition to statistical tools for their analysis. In this thesis, we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-21 Rebeca Martinez-Carrillo

Primordial non-Gaussianity is a crucial test of inflationary cosmology. We consider the impact of non-Gaussianity on the ionization power spectrum from 21 cm emission during the epoch of reionization. We focus on the power spectrum on large…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-09-30 Shahab Joudaki , Olivier Dore , Luis Ferramacho , Manoj Kaplinghat , Mario G. Santos

We explore a systematic approach to the analysis of primordial non-Gaussianity using fluctuations in temperature and polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB). Following Munshi & Heavens (2009), we define a set of power-spectra…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Dipak Munshi , Peter Coles , Asantha Cooray , Alan Heavens , Joseph Smidt

We discuss how primordial (e.g. inflationary) non-Gaussianity in the cosmological perturbations is left imprinted in the Large-Scale Structure of the universe. Our findings show that the information on the primordial non-Gaussianity set on…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 N. Bartolo , S. Matarrese , A. Riotto

We investigate future constraints on primordial local-type non-Gaussianity from 21 cm angular power spectrum from minihalos. We particularly focus on the trispectrum of primordial curvature perturbations which are characterized by the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-27 Toyokazu Sekiguchi , Tomo Takahashi , Hiroyuki Tashiro , Shuichiro Yokoyama

We apply the time-renormalization group approach to study the effect of primordial non-Gaussianities in the non-linear evolution of cosmological dark matter density perturbations. This method improves the standard perturbation approach by…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 Nicola Bartolo , J. P. Beltran Almeida , Sabino Matarrese , Massimo Pietroni , Antonio Riotto

Primordial non-Gaussianity of local type is predicted to lead to enhanced halo clustering on very large scales. Photometric quasars, which can be seen from cosmological redshifts z>2 even in wide-shallow optical surveys, are promising…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-07-16 Anthony R. Pullen , Christopher M. Hirata

We investigate the effect of equilateral-type primordial trispectrum on the halo/galaxy bispectrum. We consider three types of equilateral primordial trispectra which are generated by quartic operators naturally appeared in the effective…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Shuntaro Mizuno , Shuichiro Yokoyama

We derive a formula for the halo/galaxy bispectrum on the basis of the integrated Perturbation Theory (iPT). In addition to the gravity-induced non-Gaussianity, we consider the non-Gaussianity of the primordial curvature perturbations, and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-03-07 Shuichiro Yokoyama , Takahiko Matsubara , Atsushi Taruya

We present a detailed analysis of the point spread function (PSF) of JWST NIRCam imaging in eight filters: F070W, F115W, F150W, F200W, F277W, F356W, F444W, and F480M, using publicly available data. Spatial variations in the PSF FWHM…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-04-28 Ming-Yang Zhuang , Yue Shen

Primordial perturbations with wavelengths greater than the observable universe shift the effective background fields in our observable patch from their global averages over the inflating space. This leads to a landscape picture where the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Sami Nurmi , Christian T. Byrnes , Gianmassimo Tasinato

We study the ability of future weak lensing (WL) surveys to constrain primordial non-Gaussianity of the local type. We use a large ensemble of simulated WL maps with survey specifications relevant to Euclid and LSST. The simulations assume…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-11-05 Stefan Hilbert , Laura Marian , Robert E. Smith , Vincent Desjacques

Wireless radiance field (WRF) reconstruction aims to learn a continuous, queryable representation of radio frequency characteristics over 3D space and direction, from which specific quantities, such as the spatial power spectrum (SPS) at a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-30 Jinghan Zhang , Xitao Gong , Qi Wang , Richard A. Stirling-Gallacher , Giuseppe Caire

Primordial non-Gaussianity arising from inflationary models is a unique probe of non-trivial dynamics of the inflaton field and its interactions with other fields. Often when examining and constraining the scalar non-Gaussianity arising…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-17 Barnali Das , H. V. Ragavendra

We investigate the non-Gaussianity of second-order matter density perturbations induced by primordial gravitational waves (GWs). These tensor-induced scalar modes arise from local fluctuations in the GWs energy density, which is quadratic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-12 Mariam Abdelaziz , Pritha Bari , Sabino Matarrese , Angelo Ricciardone

Recent developments of Perturbation Theory (PT), specifically the Effective Field Theory of Large Scale Structure (EFTofLSS) and its equivalents, have proven powerful in analyzing galaxy clustering statistics such as the galaxy power…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-22 Joseph Tomlinson , Donghui Jeong

A measurement of a primordial non-Gaussianity (PNG) signal through late- or early-Universe probes has the potential to transform our understanding of the physics of the primordial Universe. $N$-body simulations, such as the public…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-19 Boryana Hadzhiyska , Lehman Garrison , Daniel J. Eisenstein , Simone Ferraro